Transportation
The Horrifying Inequality That Plagues Ohio Students' Routes to School
In Ohio's urban school districts, one in 446 students has been hit by a car. In suburban districts, it's one in 1,473.
When Ohio’s state senate convened a committee on school safety last March, the focus was on preparedness to face a school shooter like the one who killed 20 students and 6 teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But one state representative said that the concern over the possibility of such an attack was obscuring a much more common risk that Ohio’s children face every day: being hit by a car on the way to or from school.
"There are a lot more things that impact school safety than these big splashy incidents that get national attention," said Ohio State Senator Frank LaRose of Copley Township, an Akron suburb. "The walk to school is statistically more dangerous."